January 18, 2012
January 18, 2012 —
After picking up victories over Cal State East Bay and No. 24 Cal State Monterey Bay over the weekend, the UC San Diego women's basketball team climbed to No. 1 in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll that was released on Tuesday.
January 18, 2012
January 18, 2012 —
After six years in a North Vietnamese “reeducation” camp, Thai Hoang Do’s father escaped to Thailand with five children and his wife in tow. It was in a refugee camp in Thailand that Thai Do—the youngest of six children—was born to the Do family. Seven years later, the family moved to the United States, settling in San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood.
January 18, 2012
January 18, 2012 —
Marching behind a banner declaring “Freedom through Education,” more than 500 members of the UC San Diego community turned out to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy in San Diego’s 32nd annual MLK Day Parade. Dozens of the university’s participants, including Chancellor Marye Anne Fox, had just come from National City where they helped to restore portions of the American Legion Hall as part of the annual MLK Day of Service and UC San Diego’s Volunteer50 program.
January 17, 2012
January 17, 2012 —
Researchers at the California Teratogen Information Service (CTIS) Pregnancy Health Information Line, a state-wide non-profit organization based at the University of California, San Diego, have found new links between the timing of alcohol consumption during pregnancy and certain characteristics of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS).
January 17, 2012
January 17, 2012 —
Daniel J. Donoghue, vice-chair of the University of California, San Diego’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been appointed as provost at UC San Diego’s Sixth College, effective January 2012.
January 17, 2012
January 17, 2012 —
The 16th annual Lytle Scholarship Concert returns to the University of California, San Diego with “Jazz Gone Global,” a celebration of the history and spirit of jazz music featuring world renowned musician Cecil Lytle on piano and Gilbert Castellanos on trumpet, with friends.
January 13, 2012
January 13, 2012 —
James R. Arnold, founding chairman of UC San Diego’s chemistry department and first director of the California Space Institute whose contributions to science spanned the study of cosmic rays to the future of manned space flight, died Friday, January 6. He was 88.
January 12, 2012
January 12, 2012 —
Scientists from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and other areas of the University of California, San Diego, conducting research in physics, computer science, earth science, and engineering, together were awarded an all-time high of more than a quarter billion hours in supercomputing processor time by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the agency’s 2012 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.
January 12, 2012
January 12, 2012 —
The University of California, San Diego has received a record 75,968 freshman and transfer applications for Fall 2012. The university received the second highest number of applications from California resident freshmen among the UC campuses.
January 12, 2012
January 12, 2012 —
Some two decades into the grand national experiment with charter schools, how much do we really know about them? Not all that much. And not nearly as much as we easily could, say researchers from the University of California, San Diego Division of Social Sciences.
